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The advent of electronically conducted sweepstakes has brought on some unique challenges for law enforcement across the country. The main problem encountered is how to determine if the sweepstakes is being conducted in a proper manner. Since it is conducted electronically via , there is no real proof to determine if the prizes are actually awarded. With electronic sweepstakes, all prizes are offered and awarded on a computer and the prizes are paid in cash. Therefore, no paper trail is available to determine if consumer fraud or deceptive trade practices are being committed by not awarding the prizes that have been advertised. Sweepstakes Rules The rules for conducting a sweepstakes are quite consistent across the country. The sweepstakes must have a beginning and ending date,Christian Louboutin chaussures Lady Lynch 120mmvente pas cher, state the requirements for participation,Nike Zoom Kobe VII sort lilla blå sko, restrictions for who can enter,Nike Dunk Heels High Manga Girl Lilla Hvid, when and how the prizes will be awarded, etc.,Nike Zoom Kobe VII 7 Sort Hvid Gul, but the most important requirement is to identify the prizes that will be awarded and to provide free entry to all who request it. The last two requirements are the most commonly violated. Typically, software companies will create programs that either don make all prizes available to all participants, or do not award all the prizes. This would be like someone creating a sweepstakes and advertising they were giving away a yacht to entice everyone to participate,Nike Lunar Max Sort Pink Sko, then not giving away the yacht. Since there is no paper trail, law enforcement must look at the software being used to conduct the sweepstakes and award the prizes. The software companies that have entered the sweepstakes business are quite ingenious in their methods of making the software look like it complies with typical sweepstakes regulations when in fact their focus is entirely on making the games play just like they were in a casino. ?How the sweepstakes is faked There are two typical approaches that are taken by software companies in creating their prize pools. The most common method of creating prize pools is to create a unique prize pool for every play level of every game. A typical software company will have approximately 25 games and each of those games will have approximately six play levels. That means there are 150 different pools of prizes that are accessible only when a player selects a specific game and a specific play level. This is a problem for both paying and non-paying participants. Let say a customer purchases $5 of Internet access time and is given $5 free entry into the sweepstakes. If the customer plays the free entries at the $1 play level then they are not provided access to the prizes in any of the other pools either above or below the play level selected. This is a problem especially for the grand prize which is in the $8 play level pool, inaccessible to the customer, because they do not have enough money to enter. Therefore, they are not given the opportunity to win the grand prize unless more money is spent. This method of operating does not provide equal dignity to all participants. This problem is accentuated when customers are provided with a free entry in the sweepstakes. Typically, the free entries provided by operators of electronic sweepstakes are $1. This means the player is restricted to participating in those play levels at $1 and below. All the prizes for the play levels above $1 are not made available to the customer. Therefore, the customer has not been treated with equal dignity with paying participants who have paid to play at a higher level. All participants shall be provided with the same opportunity to win the prizes advertised and all prizes must be awarded. If no one ever plays the highest play level, then the prizes will never be awarded. This is the yacht example all over again. The single prize pool The second method of constructing prize pools is a single prize pool. Some software companies do operate a single pool of prizes, however their approach to prizes being awarded is quite inventive. Typically,Christian Louboutin chaussures Mlle Cristo 140mmvente au rabais, when a software company creates a single pool of prizes, the game is driving the results,Mbt Pata Grau Schuhe DaMänner, not the other way around. That means the game determines the result by looking to the pool for the result closest to what is displayed by the game. When the prize pool has become approximately 50 percent depleted, the game can no longer perform in the desired manner. The answer to overcoming the problem is to dump the balance of the pool and start another pool. When this occurs half of the prizes are never awarded even though they have been advertised. Once again this constitutes consumer fraud and deceptive trade practices. So how can we entrust operators to conduct a sweepstakes in a proper manner whereby all prizes are awarded and all participants, both paying and non-paying, are treated with equal dignity? The answer is to require everyone to operate from a single finite pool of prizes and to require the operator to completely deplete the pool prior to commencing another sweepstakes. The only caveat to this requirement is that the pool of results be reasonable in size. Some prize pools can contain billions of prizes to allow the game to play well indefinitely, allowing the operator to claim they are operating from a single pool. Prize pools should not contain more than 1,000,000 entries. If states wish to protect the public interest, they should consider adopting regulations for testing and certification of electronic sweepstakes. Once created,Nike Free Run Grey Green Sko, software companies can submit software to third party testing agencies for review and certification. These agencies can provide reports indicating the level of compliance with state regulations. States can elect to inspect the operating locations to determine if the software was certified. When a software program is created, or anytime it is modified,Nike Air Footscape Woven Black Varsity Majs, a unique File Check number is created at the same time. This File Check number can be verified on site by running the File Check program on the server. If the number doesn match it is either a different program or the program has been changed. HEST strongly recommends the following requirements be incorporated into regulations to ensure against Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Trade Practices: 1. All games operated in a single physical address shall be operated from a single finite pool of results. 2. The single finite pool of results shall reside on the server for the location, not on the games. 3. The single finite pool of results must be on-site and not at a remote server or data center. 4. All results shall be drawn from the single finite pool at the time of purchase or donation, prior to playing the games. 5. Free entries shall be drawn from the same pool used for paying participants and in the same manner. 6. The finite pool of results shall be totally depleted by participants prior to generating a new pool. 7. The maximum pool size per location shall be 1,000,000 entries. 8. Only prizes contained in the pool shall be advertised and awarded. Changing the play level on the games shall not change the prizes available or the prizes awarded.
Shannon Canard is a Manager at Hest Technologies, a leading provider of that is reliable and legally compliant for sweepstakes. For more information about software or sweepstakes machines, please visit .
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